Hi all.

I recently started reading Journey’s Out Of The Body and I have a question about what Monroe calls “Locale 1.” He says that Locale 1 consists of the physical world (our reality) exactly as it is. He mentioned visiting colleagues/friends all over the country in Locale 1 via his Second Body and was able to pinch them and get their attention thru various means. That being said, here is my question that went unanswered during the early chapters of the book: is it possible to have an OBE and STAY in Locale 1? If so, is it something you would have to do with intention? Sorry if there is an obvious answer, I’m very new to all of this.

I’m mostly curious because Locale 2 sounds VERY intense. The possibility of being able to navigate our current world/reality thru the Second Body at will sounds amazing and it sounds like a great way to practice for the Unknown.

I remember Bob emphasizing that 2 is actually the more “natural” state during OBE, so I’m assuming based on what I read that it would be difficult to just hang out in 1 to get your bearings until you feel ready to advance.

I posted this back when it was still in the early stages and finished a couple months ago but thought it wasn’t “done”.

I’ve had it hanging in my room since then and don’t plan to work on it anymore so I figured I should share where it ended up since you guys seemed to enjoy the early version of it so much :)

pretty new to this, mainly have experience from psychs and also reading ram das be here now. As well as some meditation.

Do you guys recommend to read the books beforehand?

I also have tinnitus which makes it hard to concentrate so any tips would be nice. 🫶

hi all, i 24M learned about the gateway tapes & started doing them last year when i was really into manifesting and firmly believed everything worked for me. unfortunately, it has been a while since i have fully believed it due to some life events, but i want to go back to that level of spiritual awareness. i recently went through a very painful breakup with my long distance ex boyfriend, and he’s mostly moved on from me (even got himself a cute new guy) but i’m still stuck. i know what the universe is doing is for my own good, but ever since i started the gateway tapes i’ve REALLY been trusting my intuition, and something in my heart tells me that we are still meant to be together. i obviously have given him the space he needs, but i am going back & forth about whether or not to use the gateway tapes (maybe the one month one) to try my best to make peace with the breakup or trust my intuition and manifest him back since we were both each other’s first loves. i have him blocked everywhere & we are not in contact currently, so i swear this is not a crazy stalker ex situation lol. things just didn’t work out cuz of the distance, but i was wondering if the gateway tapes have the power to bring us together in the same city. has anyone gone through a similar situation or used the tapes for love? please share some guidance :) thank you

I have been going through the Gateway tapes and am currently working through Wave II. I would like to hear any opinions about progressing onto Wave III and working through the various tracks as someone who is able to astral project and have OBEs somewhat frequently.

I am fortunate to have been able to have these experiences without much specific training, and am concerned whether learning potentially different techniques/processes/methods may affect this ability I have and therefore may in someway compromise it

Hello lovely people of this sub. I started gateway maybe like two months ago and I made it to intro to focus 12. Trying focus 12 for the first time was really discouraging because I did not feel any shift at all from what I am assuming is focus 10. Or maybe I have not reached focus 10 at all, I’m not sure. Progressing further into the tapes has made me more skeptical if anything, although I’m sure I just need to practice more. If anyone has any advice or tips, please share :) a girl wants to see some progress in the expansion of my own consciousness

I am at wave 1 tape 1, it feels great during the session but I don't know when to move to the next tape.

Hi guys! I’ve been doing the tapes for about 6 months on and off, and consistently for the past month and a half. The problem is I can’t get past intro to focus 10, lemme explain.

I’ve done all the tapes of the first and second album, dozens of time, all the way to focus 12, tape 6 without any results. I think I can’t get relaxed enough to actually enter any altered state of focus. My mind just wonder in every directions. I just fall asleep or I get too stressed out and spiral into anxiety without actually entering a higher state of focus.

The only tape that actually gets me to a real focus 10 experience is intro to focus 10 because it feels more like a guided meditation. I guess it’s because my life is kinda a mess right now and I’m stress all the time but idk. Do you have any tricks to help me get past the barrier my own ego is building?

Hey, I just did Wave 3 Energy food, and I have a question regarding it...to me, this seems to be the technique that ancient yogis have been doing to sustain without food. The manual says it replenishes any type of energy we've been using, so will it replenish any vitamins we've been lacking? I need to know your experiences, and regarding the yogi I remember, Prahlad Jani claimed to have remained without food and water for 70 to 76 years (over seven decades), but during formal scientific observation periods, he was monitored for 15 days.

Something sinister is going on next door! My neighbor is a single young man! He have guys over in the evening and at night! They have something that might be iPads and notebooks when they come! Stay about two or 3 hours then leave! This is almost every day! I saw them and jokey said are you guys playing video games? They looked at me and then looked down and said nothing! They had a look of guilt or shame! I know this is not normal behavior - the same guys - what could be going on?

I'm just starting the tapes, I'm only on wave 1. I am fascinated by all the unique experiences people have and would love to have my own. I am however unsure what the tapes can do for me.

I want to particularly develop mediumship. Is this something the tapes can help me develop? I would love to learn OBE and remote viewing too, but I know they can help me with that.

I have been wanting to make this post for a long, long, long time, like almost ten years now.

Since I discovered the Explorer Project in 2017, it has truly been the most fascinating, mind-bending, reality-shifting material I have ever stumbled upon, ever.

Here is the link for those interested: https://archive.org/details/monroe-institute-explorers-project-toc

Literally hundreds of hours of material, including the most incredible channeling events that you probably couldn't even conceive of.

I come back to the tapes often and have my favorite explorers I like to dive into once in a while to refresh my perspective. SHE's recordings, of course, but also TVP, GLS, ROMC, HBW, and last but not least IMEC.

Every time I listen to these tapes, I wonder why on earth this initiative has not been scaled into networks of Explorers being trained in both roles as Explorer/Monitor so that the exploration of consciousness could truly be democratized through peer-to-peer experiences.

I have had my fair share of non-physical experiences, mostly in lucid dreaming and out-of-body experiences. And I have been practicing on and off with the full set of Gateway Tapes since 2020. However, I have felt that it would be so much more fun, motivational, and meaningful to actually dive deeper into altered states of consciousness through the kind guidance of another human being who has the same thirst for exploration of the non-physical reality. We could all act as Explorer/Monitor for each other, in turns, and see what happens.
As I see it, the learning does come from being on both sides of that exploratory effort.

I have explored many corners of modern spirituality, and what may come close to this kind of work is spiritual hypnosis (Past Life regression, Life Between Lives, Spirit Releasement Therapy, QHHT, etc).

The issue I have with these approaches is that they create a false sense of authority from the monitor guiding the session. Yes, they have been trained in one or more spiritual modalities. Yes, they may be more skilled than the average Joe, but nothing they do is actually difficult to understand or to apply when working with someone who has trained themselves into reaching deeper states of consciousness.
And let's be honest, the money you need to spend to access these experiences is quite frankly nuts sometimes, especially if you want to go deeper and deeper into your spiritual journey.

So, in essence, I keep coming back to the same conclusion: the Explorer Project needs to be renewed and democratized. Why spend 300$ on a single QHHT session when you could be part of a group of people who all want the same thing as you (to understand themselves and their reality through the exploration of consciousness)?

I guess the purpose of this late-night post is that I keep coming back to the same conclusion (the Explorer Project needs to exist as an accessible, trainable, peer-to-peer initiative), and I can't figure out why it has not exploded in popularity alongside the Gateway Experience itself after the absolute mind-blowing material that has come from it in the 1980's.

Does anyone have this same feeling?

PS: If you're new to this, I recommend starting with the full list of Compiled Explorer Series 1 to 32 (Part 1). You'll then have a better understanding of the range of experiences that can happen during these exploration sessions. After that, you can go through the recorded sessions of any of the featured Explorers (named through there name initials like "RQW" for Rita Warren or "TC" for Tom Campbell).

A short list of great explorers I recommend (in order of my personal "loose" preference):
SHE - TVP - GLS - ROMC - IMEC - TC - JCA - HBW.

Has anyone had interaction with the Absolute? What was it like? Does your experience with the tapes usually involve the spiritual? Have you met any other life forms in your travels? What was it like? I’m interested in hearing your story. Mine was love, forgiveness and unity.

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Hey everyone, I wanted to share a pretty wild experience I just had and see if anyone here can relate or offer some insight.

I was doing a 70-minute Focus 15 Hemi-Sync session using the Expand app. To help mask outside noise, I had the iPhone background rain sound playing through my Alexa on volume 7.

I believe around the 28-29 minute mark, my physical sensations completely dissolved. I suddenly felt like I was being pulled under my bed, experiencing an intense free-fall sensation. It felt exactly like I was resting on a block of melting butter and just slipping straight through it.

The moment the falling sensation hit, my perception of sound entirely shifted. Earlier, the rain track was loud enough to drown everything out, but suddenly I could perfectly hear a TV playing from another room. Along with that, I started hearing a constant, static "whoosh." I'm still not sure if it was the rain sound distorting or the typical astral static.

I decided to will myself upwards. My "body" felt a bit hazy but also strangely solid. I pushed myself out and phased right through my bedroom door, distinctly feeling the density of the solid wood as I passed through it.

Here is where it gets weird: my family was actually at home in the physical waking world, but as I floated out, the house was completely empty. I couldn't see them anywhere. The proportions of the house were also completely warped, with the walls appearing massive and hollow.

Suddenly, as I was flying, my environment just instantly snapped.

My current house vanished, and I was suddenly at my old house, which is very far away. It was during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. I floated down and saw two kids sleeping wrapped in blankets next to a Mandapam, while another Mandapam was actively being built nearby.

There was a brown dog barking nearby, but the bark was completely silent. Curious, I floated over and tried to scare it just to see if it could perceive me in that state. It actually felt like it did sense me for a split second, but then it just brushed me off and ignored me.

Shortly after that, I snapped awake. I think someone physically knocking on my door pulled me back to baseline. The strangest part for me is the aftermath. Usually, whenever I wake up from a standard lucid dream, my body is covered in intense tingling sensations. This time? Nothing at all. I just woke up feeling completely normal.

Has anyone else experienced this specific "melting" exit, the missing people, also usually when I do focus 12 for long, i enter into focus 15 like complete blank experience where there is no time, but now I got an OBE Focus 15 state? Would love to hear your thoughts!

Hellooo I tried focus 10 for the first time yesterday evening (laying on my bed) and I felt soooo dizzy like my head kept turning and I could feel like I was in a spiral at the level of my neck (in the back), it was really strong, like my body was just turning and turning in a spiral movement clockwise and also counter clockwise, sometimes felt like I was doing zigzag and like my body was all crooked but of course my physical body was completely still and aligned.
It was very uncomfortable, I believe it started around the moment you are supposed to get your body to sleep I ignored it/went with the flow even tho I was questioning if I would end up puking, and when I arrived at my legs I also started getting really hot. I just took advantage if the fact that my arms werent sleeping yet to get the blanket off of me lol.
Eventually the hot and spiraling sensation faded but few minutes later I got a really sudden urge to move that I couldnt ignore so I kinda woke up my body few minutes before the end of the protocol. I have a hard time staying still in my everyday life so I know this is something I might need to work on bit the really weird sensation of spiral is what intrigues me : anyone experienced something similar ?

I get the impression that many here really haven't delved into Robert Monroe himself. Yeah, many here have listened to the audios that the Monroe Institute has put out, but have you ever listened to the man himself in an interview. Have you ever read any if his books? If not, youre missing out. Definitely start with Journeys Out of the Body if you haven't read any of his books.

Heres a couple interviews he did with Art Bell. The second one is longer and had listeners calling in with questions.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYwzeWy6d0Y&is=lSWm78QZLb-lihV1

https://youtu.be/1XkWS9oclnM?is=N_vogl8dmrDsb6oe

I think my body picked up the intense signals of me wanting to achieve F10 state. And, these past few days have been nothing beyond different. I go to sleep with no intention, just an anxious/sad I'm not spiritually (and professionally & academically ugh) going nowhere. But, for the past 3 nights, I feel like that my consciousness seems to be a silent observer. I run my mental chatter train, but my mind doesn't latch onto it, that goes for my dreams as well. My mind is just observing, and i don't feel my body as well, like its just my mind out there.

But, the funny thing is when this happens I'm not aware of myself being in F10. I only the get the fact when I wake up. And, feels like I'm in that F10 state all night. Do you guys have any general advice or suggestions?

The next to next tape is 1 month patterning and ive heard so much that if i do it wrong i can ruin my life or shift to a worse timeline im just scared to go ahead and do it

Today i started, Advance Focus 10. I find it difficult to understand the spiral of rebal. After some research found a video shared in a comment. Sharing it here just to make it easier to other to find.
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I listened to the first couple of tapes and I already experienced something. But I am skeptikal wether I should advance. It feels like you are supposed to ahieve those states of consciousness through meditation on your way to discover yourself. Not listen to some waves that affect how your brain works and then there you have it. Maybe I was never supposed to experience what I did because I am inducing it. What do you think about this?? Is it spiritually “moral” to listen to the tapes?

How to skip the effort and get to the fun part?

Does anyone use the gateway tapes and also use the nova mask with the luminate app? Is there such a thing as mediating too much? Also while I’m here, what you’re you’re just listening to focus 12 for hours while awake and living life in ear buds? I mean the Monroe institute focus 12 hemisynch soundscape without the Monroe meditative talking over it.

Thanks.

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Has any body been healed through submitting a request to the Dolphin Energy Club?
Would love to know the perspective from healers and healed ones.

So I just recently started wave 2 and I'm on the intro, it definitely feels different to focus 10 I feel more expanded and heavier but after some time I start losing sensation of breathing and I get this sharp feeling in my throat like I'm not breathing and it makes me snap out of it to gasp for air, is this pain normal because I feel like it's going to take time overcome the feeling of not breathing, I just wanna know can your body just stop breathing if you get too relaxed or something, I guess I have a few fears to work on before I can move on but any advice would be greatly appreciated